Performance Climbing Coaching
Climbing at your limit and pushing your grade requires time, effort and a fair bit of dedication. Performance climbing coaching is designed to help make it all a bit easier with tuition from one of the UK's best female climbers.
Many climbers reach a plateau which is difficult to overcome without advice and help from a more experienced climber. Silvia is highly skilled at identifying the factors which may be holding people back and finding strategies to overcome these.
Silvia is well qualified for coaching clients maximise their potential. She studied for 5 years to gain a Sports Science/PE degree in Buenos Aires whilst simultaneously becoming South American climbing champion. She was invited to Europe to represent South America in the 'Climb for the World' extravaganza and after climbing the North face of the Eiger for the TV program stayed in Europe, climbing routes up to 8a+ before a ground fall put her in hospital for six months. The accident left her with nerve damage and movement restrictions that meant she had to learn to climb again with a totally different technique; after a lot of hard work she bounced back to win the British Climbing Championships and has also led E6, flashed 7c and redpointed 8b.
This is a course of intensive, advanced coaching for established climbers who want to break through a grade barrier, want to be more confident on the lead or are looking for expert guidance on other aspects of their personal climbing.
We will ask for detailed information about your current climbing performance and then plan an appropriate coaching program designed to help you improve specific areas of weakness. We will also suggest mental approaches and training strategies that will help you to achieve your personal goals.
This Performance Climbing course is best suited to those who have already have outdoor lead climbing experience and want to gain more advanced skills so that they can maximise their potential .The course focuses on:
- Identifying your weaknesses and strengths
- Increasing movement range
- Footwork
- Body position
- Improving efficiency by saving energy
- Increasing your speed of recovery while climbing and resting
- Overcoming psychological barriers
- Falling - mental preparation and safety
- Tactics for on sighting and red pointing
- Developing the mental skills necessary for climbing close to your limit
- Choosing and reading routes
Dates, venues and duration of the courses are by arrangement and totally customisable. Please do not hesitate to get in touch to discuss your requirements.